Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Paul Evans

Man has left footprints on the moon but still hasn't walked on the ocean floor.

Richard Paul Evans

What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

Richard Wilbur

All that we do is touched with ocean, and yet we remain on the shore of what we know

Russell Brand

I missed him, of course, but sometimes close friendships have a tidal beat that pulls you towards different shores though the ocean that connects you remains.

Roz Savage

Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.

Roz Savage

Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.

Rose George

In practice, the ocean is the world's wildest place because of both its fearsome natural danger and how easy it is out there to slip from the boundaries of law and civilization that seem so firm ashore.

Tupac Shakur

For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean

Tracy Kidder

The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least of humility-but not in everyone.

Rebecca West

a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.

Marcel Proust

Until I saw Chardin's painting, I never realized how much beauty lay around me in my parents' house, in the half-cleared table, in the corner of a tablecloth left awry, in the knife beside the empty oyster shell.

Katie Aselton

I really like oysters, and I won't eat them alone. They're just a weird thing to eat by yourself.

John Bunyan

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.

Ross Perot

My role in life is that of the grain of sand to the oyster-it irritates the oyster and out comes a pearl.

Rumi

What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl.

Roy Blount, Jr.

I prefer my oysters fried; that way I know my oysters died.

Sallust

Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.

Stephen King

It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.

Rick Riordan

She would always be my biggest what if.

Tucker Max

I could never kill myself. What if it doesn't work. Then I'll have failed at the only thing that could save me from my failures. Where do you go from there?

Willa Cather

What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?

Werner Erhard

The important question to ask is not 'Will we surivive?' but 'What if we survive?'

Robin McKinley

What we can do, we must do: we must use what we are given, and we must use it the best we can, however much or little help we have for the task. What you have been given is a hard thing--a very hard thing... But my darling, what if there were no one who could do the difficult things?

Mike Lupica

We can what-if ourselves to death... But what-if never does anybody any good. All any of us ever have...is one thing, and we better make the most of it while we can: What is.

Kathy Reichs

I see you, Ben. I always have. You're in my pack." He pulled away. "What if being packmates isn't enough for me?

Newt Gingrich

What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]? That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.

Kirk Cameron

What if marriage is really about making us more like Christ, not so much about making us happy?